Star Wars Reveals Its Own Version Of Marvels HYDRA

Star Wars Reveals Its Own Version Of Marvel’s HYDRA

A recent Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters comic reveals that the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate shares a lot in common with Marvel’s HYDRA.

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Star Wars Reveals Its Own Version Of Marvels HYDRA

Warning! Spoilers for Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #14 ahead!

The latest comic in the Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters event reveals that the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn has a lot in common with the evil HYDRA organization from Marvel Comics. The ongoing Star Wars comics crossover focuses on the hunt for Han Solo’s frozen carbonite body after it is stolen from Boba Fett prior to Return of the Jedi. Crimson Dawn, the criminal organization featured in Solo: A Star Wars Story, has re-emerged and is now led by Han’s former love interest, Qi’ra. She reveals that Crimson Dawn has stolen Han and plans to auction him off to any number of factions that want revenge on the infamous smuggler.

First appearing in the 1965 comic Strange Tales #135 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, HYDRA is a terrorist organization started by the Nazi agent Red Skull during World War II. Surviving the end of the war, HYDRA has endured through the decades and has repeatedly returned to make a play for world domination. The organization has most famously been led by Red Skull or Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, but it has had many notorious members throughout its history, including Captain America during the infamous Secret Empire event. Captain America: The Winter Soldier revealed that the MCU version of HYDRA was not defeated at the end of World War II, but rather that it had gone underground and its members had infiltrated the U.S. government at all levels.

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In Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #14 by Ethan Sacks, Paolo Villanelli, Arif Prianto and Travis Lanham, bounty hunters Beilert Valance and Dengar are being pursued by Crimson Dawn’s assassin, Deathstick. When they take refuge with an ally named Mama Stammoch, they learn the history of Crimson Dawn, beginning with its origins as part of the Shadow Collective during the Clone Wars. Stammoch reveals that after the Siege of Mandalore, many of the crime syndicates went underground, but that Crimson Dawn returned and wreaked havoc on the Outer Rim. Following the death of Dryden Vos (as seen in Solo), she relates that the syndicate disappeared. “Some say the Dawn never truly left…lying in wait…for something BIG,” she says.

This history, coupled with the fact that Qi’ra is now leading Crimson Dawn, evokes Marvel’s HYRDA in a couple ways. Much like how HYDRA survived the defeat of the Nazis and went underground to bide its time, so too did Crimson Dawn survive the defeat of the Shadow Collective and the end of the Clone Wars. It even endured the deaths of founder Darth Maul and key figurehead Dryden Vos. HYDRA’s motto is “If a head is cut off, two more will take its place,” which emphasizes the idea that the organization lives on even after its leaders are killed, and that someone will always step up to take charge. Qi’ra has taken the same action with Crimson Dawn, allowing it to persevere without its founders. Judging by Mama Stammoch’s retelling, Crimson Dawn has an almost mythical reputation (Valance even says her story “sounds like fairy tales”). But the fact that it is secretly influencing the galaxy’s underworld shows that there is a lot of truth in the myth.

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While the outcome of Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters and Qi’ra’s fate are unknown, the canon reference book Star Wars: Smuggler’s Guide indicates that Crimson Dawn survives past the fall of the Empire and into the New Republic era. Just like HYDRA, it seems that Crimson Dawn can never be fully eradicated and will continue to unleash terror and chaos for decades to come.

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